Drivers could save £4,000 during fuel crisis by swapping to a cargo bike, new research suggests
via road.cc
sourcefeed - a standalone RSS writing tool.
“In the decade of Thatcher from 1980 to 1990, London still built nearly 52,000 council homes. In the decade of Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007, only 280 went up.”
via The Graun
In too deep: Inside the messy, lucrative collapse of a lido empire
Cracking read on the collapse of Fusion, via The Londoner
“Indeed there are seven former Lambeth Labour councillors now sitting as MPs for the party: a number of alumni in the Commons matched only by Manchester city council, which covers double the population. That contingent, and the various other branches of the so-called “Lambeth mafia” that run through the Labour Party and trade union movement, will feel the council’s loss most sharply.”
Come the Glorious Day, Comrades. via, erm, The Times.
AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players
via The Graun
“McSweeney may be gone from Downing Street, but Labour Together’s alumni remain ensconced in high office – Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Communities Secretary Steve Reed among them. Labour Together’s record of law-breaking, deception and harassment of critics and independent journalists is well-known.”
aka Made in Lambeth
via Morning Star
‘Of course, according to her, ‘our capital is being destroyed’ - perhaps stay away then."
via Transpontine
“At half-time, Tony Woodcock, one of the Miracle Men who won back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980, will be presented with his long-overdue winners’ medal for the part he played in winning the second trophy. He featured in four of the nine games Forest played to retain the trophy, before signing for Cologne — his departure upset manager Brian Clough, and he never received a second winner’s medal, until now. John McGovern, who captained that side, will hand it over.”
Put your records on: eleven Notts vinyl stores worth visiting on Record Store Day
via Left Lion
The Pogues on HMS Belfast, 1985
via Transpontine
A race like no other: Drama, chaos, and heartbreak at an epic Paris-Roubaix – Gallery
via road.cc
" if you’ve noticed that someone’s been hanging around for a long time then you probably have too, so just turn yourself in and be done with it."
Arf. via Diamond Geezer
Vinyl’s days are numbered: CDs are the future of music listening
via Far Out
The left without class has failed – what comes next?
via Morning Star
“I fear that the art of building dams in the woods is just another of those important artisanal professions that die out due to ’the internet’. Perhaps I’ll host a £450 day-long course in the skill, and I’ll rejoice in the fact that Woody Guthrie wrote me a song about my exploits.”
